My Race Is My Gender

Portraits of Nonbinary People of Color

Stephanie Hsu, Ka-Man Tse

• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Year: 2024
• Print ISBN:
  9781978823945
  9781978823952
• eBook ISBN:
  9781978823969
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Photography
• Index: Social Sciences

Genderqueer and nonbinary people of color often experience increased marginalization, belonging to an ethnic group that seldom recognizes their gender identity and a queer community that subscribes to white norms. Yet for this very reason, they have a lot to teach about how racial, sexual, and gender identities intersect. Their experiences of challenging social boundaries demonstrate how queer communities can become more inclusive and how the recognition of nonbinary genders can be an anti-racist practice. 
 
My Race is My Gender is the first anthology by nonbinary writers of color to include photography and visual portraits, centering their everyday experiences of negotiating intersectional identities. While informed by queer theory and critical race theory, the authors share their personal stories in accessible language. Bringing together Black, Indigenous, Latine, and Asian perspectives, its six contributors present an intergenerational look at what it means to belong to marginalized queer communities in the U.S. and feel solidarity with a global majority at the same time. They also provide useful insights into how genderqueer and nonbinary activism can both energize and be fueled by such racial justice movements as Black Lives Matter. 

Table of contents

• Cover
• Series Page
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Contents
• Series Foreword
• Introduction: Your Race Is Your Gender
• 1. Outside In: Scattered at the Edge, Part One
• 2. What Flows through Me
• 3. Jonas and the Flowers
• 4. What Is a Pussy Anyway?
• 5. Outside In: Scattered at the Edge, Part Two
• Epilogue: Androgyny and Other Forms of Nonbinary Race
• Notes on Contributors
• Series List